Interest Groups and Information Provision in Judicial Politics: Evidence from Amicus Briefs

• In Event: Interest Groups and the Courts

Brief Overview

We introduce a text-as-data approach to study the information content in amicus briefs. Our results support a theory of how incentives underlying interest group participation in judicial politics shape the provision of information to the courts.

Authors

• Pamela Ban, University of California-San Diego

• Jennifer Gaudette, University of California-San Diego